The EPA’s endocrine disruptor testing program must be stopped. Please contact your congressional representatives immediately and tell them:
The EPA has taken the endocrine disruptor portion of Congress’ Food Quality Protection Act and turned it into an enormous animal-testing program that is not based on good science or even on common sense.
The EPA is planning to use animal tests that have not been properly validated through the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of Alternative Methods and whose results are of questionable relevance to humans. Furthermore, the agency appears set to proceed with its testing program without using the non-animal high-throughput screen and without conducting the recommended epidemiological studies.
The EPA must start considering the ramifications of its actions on animal protection and must start developing non-animal test methods.
Instead of demanding an endless number of new animal tests whose results are then ignored, the EPA should develop a program that will actually reduce emissions and exposures to chemicals already known to be hazardous.
Demand that your congressional representative and senators revisit the endocrine disruptor testing program and bring some sanity to this EPA program.
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